Bookeen
Industry | eBooks Consumer electronics |
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Founder | Laurent Picard Michael Dahan |
Headquarters | Paris, France |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Laurent Picard Co-founder, Michael Dahan Co-founder |
Products | Cybook Gen1 Cybook Gen3 Cybook Opus Cybook Orizon Cybook Odyssey Cybook Muse Cybook Ocean |
Website | bookeen.com |
Bookeen is a French company dealing with
History
In 2003 after the failure of Cytale (the first European company to make an ebook reader) two former engineers of Cytale, Laurent Picard and Michaël Dahan, bought the intellectual property of the Cytale reading device, the Cybook Gen1.[2] They founded the company, Bookeen, to produce dedicated ebook reading devices. Their first product was the Cybook Gen1.
The Cybook Gen1 was Bookeen's only product until 2006/2007, when they began exploring
At the end of 2008, Bookeen started to claim future support for the
June 2010 Bookeen published a much improved firmware for Gen3 and Opus devices.[5]
In August 2011, Bookeen launched its own e-book store called BookeenStore.com with ePub and PDF format books, and a selection of free e-books with no DRM.[6] (Note: this site now has DRM.[7])
In 2014, Bookeen launched the Cybook Muse, the new 6 inches connected ebook reader[8] and later in 2014, the Cybook Ocean, an 8 inches connected ebook reader.[9]
See also
- Cybook Orizon
- Comparison of e-book readers
References
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- ^ "Bookeen - Cybook ePaper - the eBook reading device". Archived from the original on 2009-05-01. Retrieved 2009-07-26.
- ^ a b "Bookeen - Cybook ePaper - the eBook reading device". Archived from the original on 2010-01-01. Retrieved 2010-01-06.
- ^ "Bookeen Cybook Opus Paraded". Ubergizmo.
- ^ "Cybook, eBook Readers - BOOKEEN". bookeen.com. Archived from the original on 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2010-07-07.
- ^ Bookeen launches a new e-book store Archived 2011-10-12 at the Wayback Machine. E-reader Info.
- ^ [1]"ARTICLE 2 : PROTECTION DES DROITS D'AUTEUR".
- ^ Jamie Carter (20 February 2015). "Bookeen Cybook Muse FrontLight review". TechRadar.com. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ Diston, Mark. "An e-reader you HAVEN'T heard of: Cybook Ocean 8"". Theregister.com. Retrieved 17 December 2021.